“If you no longer love me, then I’ll leave. The past feels like yesterday, yet it turns our hair white.” He slighted her, scorned her, humiliated her, and doubted her. The one thing that never changed was that he never believed her. Her love and hatred throughout her life were bound to one man. But emperors have always been fickle, and before her beauty had faded, his favor was already gone. This dream of fleeting splendor, this young and tender love, was ultimately extinguished.
